Here are a few bird photos I took earlier this week:
Sally loves watching the birds.
Snowy afternoon bird party
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Today’s bird party sponsored by….
Brian & Leanne & family!!
They had a humongous bag of sunflower seeds delivered to our house for Christmas.
Today I filled up the bird feeders before I left for work with their seed.
I see the birds have already dug in!
Update: Argh. Looks like the cam might have froze on one pic. I’ll reset this afternoon, if it doesn’t fix itself.
Good morning, slept in, Jeff is missing, and the birds are coming
Awwww, the perfect Saturday morning.
It is after 10am and my hair is still standing straight up. I can only guess that Jeff woke up in the dark hours but I slept right through.
I was stumbling through a old mechanic’s shop carrying empty pop cans with my sister Julie trying to get to the ocean, and hoping Dad that was somewhere behind us talking to a guy of the last shop we snuck through would find our same short cut and catch up with us.
But by 9:45am I figured I should leave the ocean and wake up and shake off the dreams.
First thing I did was stumble outside and fill up the bird feeders.
We’ve been having bird parties every morning. Sometimes 30+ evening grosbeaks fly in! That bird species always seems to travel in packs.
Still no blue jay has showed up to tackle the new whole peanut feeder.
Last night when I got home from work there were two really large grouse in a tree behind the house. They were walking along the branches, eating something. Branch ends? Buds? There were on the hardwood trees. I tried to take photos of them, but it was getting dark and I couldn’t hold the camera still enough. Sometimes I think I should be keeping the tripod out of the box and ready to go.
Jeff can’t be found, but neither can his truck, so I’m assuming he went to town early to find a new tire for the ATV wagon. It is going up to +5 today so he’ll likely be itchin’ to get more gravel into the ruts in the driveway.
We also need to get another cord of wood in the basement to do it’s last drying before burning. Jeff is going to be in Ontario for a week later this month, so he wants to be extra sure I can survive on my own, and have plenty of wood to burn and keep warm.
OH! The first birds have arrived to the bird party. Let me take a photo for you.
–pause–
Oh and here is the least out of focus photo of one of the grouse in the tree last night:
Jeff is back. He had no luck getting a new tube for the tire for the ATV wagon trailer, so he will have to order the one from Princess Auto for $5, although it will also have a $5 shipping charge. And he might as well order two since the other one has been repaired too.
Hungry Birdies
Saturday, those pretty yellow birds, shopping, snow storm
It’s Saturday morning and a big flock of those pretty yellow and black big birds just flew it – evening grosbeaks I think they were called. Jeff counted 20 of them! I just ran out to fill the feeder, but they flew away 
I hope they come back!!
We’re off to the farmer’s market to do some Christmas shopping. We have a snow fall warning forecast for tonight. Maybe 15 cm. We don’t have a plow yet for our new ATV! It isn’t expected to arrive until at least Monday. Uh oh! Hopefully the snow will melt on it’s own!
Here is our new toy:
Hummingbird Season
We have 2 hummingbird feeders now – the traditional hanging variety, and the small type that sticks with a suction cup to a window (like Uncle Joe has in PEI).
We have 2 kinds of hummingbirds and at least 2 of each. Tonight 2 ruby throated hummingbirds were chasing each other around for hours. They are noisy and vicious. Grandma and Joe said they’d never heard a hummingbird – other than the brrrrrr of their wings – and thought I was crazy. But hummingbirds are quite chatty – and vicious when they are fighting with each other!
Here are some pictures:
First guests at our bird bath
We’ve been looking for the perfect bird bath since we lived in the Sault and we finally found one earlier this spring that was perfect!
Today Jeff noticed the first bath party was going on outside!
Bird Species spotted here this month
Indigo bunting
Rose-breasted grosbeak
Canada goose
Bald eagle
Mourning dove
Downy woodpecker
Red-breasted nuthatch
White-breasted nuthatch
Ruby-throated hummingbird
Blue jay
American crow
Black-capped Chickadee
American Robin
European Starling
Yellow-rumped warbler
Chipping sparrow
White-throated sparrow
Dark-eyed junco
Common Grackle
Purple finch
American goldfinch
Evening grosbeak
Yellow warbler
+sparrows & gulls we haven’t identified
Some pictures from last weekend, taken by me, Jeff, and Dad:
Bird Party here this morning
Photos from the bird party that is going on outside.
And here are 2 of the cats because Jeff’s brother Brian says I don’t post enough kitten pictures for him:
ooooo we’re so stuffed
Jeff and I had a great morning outside doing yard work. I cut the grass while Jeff cleaned out the shed and burned stuff.
The Evening Grosbeak came back, and he brought 2 of his girlfriends! All 3 of them sat in the tree for quite some time before they went to the birdfeeder. Then all 3 sat on the sunflower seed feeder and snacked for a bit.
This afternoon we went to the spring casserole dinner for our community development association. We had a late lunch, and we not at all hungry, but we wanted to support the community, and I was hoping we’d meet more people.
We went, ate, and left, without talking to anyone No one even asked us to enter the 50-50 draw, but since we walked away the big winners at the fall casserole supper, we felt fine not gambling on this draw too. Don’t go to a casserole dinner if you aren’t hungry. It hurts a little.
After the dinner we took the dogs to the lake down from us. It’s less populated and there is a picnic rest area there. No one was there so we took the boys down to the water to swim. Trooper didn’t want to swim today. I imagine his old joints weren’t keen on the cold water. Monty was a keener thought and could have retrieved those bumpers for another hour, but other people showed up, and brought the black flies, so we backed in it and headed for home.
I don’t think I’ve ever tired Monty out once. He swam out for probably 25 retrieves and he hasn’t napped yet.
We were just watching TV and I saw a hummingbird zip by the window. Jeff ran to the kitchen to prepare the hummingbird food to put in the feeder. We didn’t even have it out yet. 5 minutes later the ruby-throated hummingbird was back! He sat on a branch sticking out of the pile of cut alders. He sat so still – if you didn’t see where he landed, you would have thought he was a leaf. Then he started coming to the feeder! We took 33 photos, but he’s a tricky bugger to focus on. Luckily he sat to feed so here are the best shots (some with the flash, some without – it’s dusk – even trickier!):
